I am a Sunset Rubdown lover, I just wanted to start off by saying that. I've noticed something though... Doesn't the mastering or production seem a little bad? If you listen to something else and switch to SR, while the music is great, it just doesn't feel as full or ear-pleasing as it could be. I've just ordered they're last two albums in vinyl to see if its just shitty digital mastering that is the problem. I hope I can come back here saying that it is a problem with the digital copies. Anybody agree?
Apparently Krug meant to record it that way - with more of a live feeling or something. There is an interview where he addresses out on teh internets somewhere.
Take a look at that video and listen to how great it sounds.
EDIT: "I know that a lot of things I’ve done could’ve been better, but I didn’t know they could’ve been better while I was doing them. In retrospect, I can think, if I had taken this song in this direction, it could’ve been a much better song, or on Random Spirit Lover, for example, the production is quite terrible. Sonically, it’s a very rudimentary record, and it acted as a lesson for me and helped me grow as an artist. I believe that you can destroy art by spending too much time on it. It’s the classic question: when do you stop putting paint on a canvas? There’s definitely a time to step back and realize it’s fine not to be perfect, cos perfection can never be achieved. The job of the artist firstly is to share his art."
I don't know what it is, but Dragonslayer, in particular, sounds pretty mediocre/bad on speakers, but sounds incredible on headphones. I have no idea why. But I only listen to it on headphones now.
